Character actor Gale Gordon is probably best remembered as Lucille Ball’s longtime TV foil and bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball’s second TV sitcom, The Lucy Show on CBS from 1962-1968. Prior to his television career, Gordon was a respected radio actor.

Gale Gordon with co-star Lucille Ball

1961

Gale Gordon co-starred with Eve Arden on the CBS television show Our Miss Brooks (1952-1956). The show began as a CBS radio program from 1948 to 1957.